Colorado Forest Project Reports

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Proposed Changes to the Roadless Rule in Colorado	9/7/2004
Colorado receives nearly $60 million from its 4.4 million acres of roadless areas each year.
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Losing Ground: Colorado's Vanishing Agricultural Landscape	4/13/2006
Colorado’s finest ranches and croplands are disappearing faster than ever before. Since 1992, Colorado has lost 2.89 million acres of agricultural land.
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Our Natural Legacy: The Value Of America's Roadless National Forests	11/15/2004
After decades of scientific inquiry, 600 public hearings, and a record 1.6 million comments, the Clinton administration enacted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in January 2001 to protect 58.5 million acres of wild national forest land from most commercial logging and road-building.
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Worth More Wild: The Value of Colorado’s Roadless National Forests	09/27/2007
After decades of scientific inquiry, 600 public hearings, and a record 1.6 million comments from the American public, the Clinton administration issued the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in January 2001. The Roadless Rule, as it is commonly known, originally protected 58.5 million acres of wild national forest land from most commercial logging and road-building, and associated mining and drilling. Since then, the Bush administration has removed these protections from 9.5 million acres of roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest.
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